Highlighting pictorial representation and process of making same



Nov. 17, 1964 L. D. MENCONI ETAL 3,157,559

HIGHLIGHTING PICTORIAL. REPRESENTATION AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME Filed March 24, 1961 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 WM (9 /\J INVENTORS LAWRENCE D. MENCONI BY HAROLD E LASER ATTORNEY Nov. 17, 1964 D. MENCONI ETAL 3,157,559

HIGHLIGHTING PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME Filed March 24, 1961 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 9 INVENTORS Ll. LAWRENCE D- MENCONI HAROLD E. LASER ATTORNEY Nov. 17, 1964 D. MENCONI ETAL 3,157,559

HIGHLIGHI'ING PICTORIAL REPRE SENTATION AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed March 24, 1961 INVENTORS LAWRENCE D. MENCONI HAROLD E LASER BY 2 ATTORNEY 0 0K mozo 50E wDJm xUdjm United States Patent "ice 3,157,559 IHGHLIGHIING P161 ORIAL REPREENTATIGN AND IRGQESS 0F MAKING SAME Lawrence D. hienconi, 915 Helen Drive, Melrose Park,

33., and Hmeld E. Laser, 1385 .Iefierson Sh, fies Plains-s, Ill.

Filed Mar. 24, 1%61, Ser. No. 93,033 7 Claims. (Cl. 1611-34) This invention relates generally to the graphic arts, and particularly to a highlighted pictorial representation, and a process of making same.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide an artistic highlighting effect in a multi-colored pictorial representation.

Another object is to provide a pictorial representation, preferably printed on a metallic foil sheet and characterized by large areas of substantially the same color with a highlighted effect which varies according to the light impinging upon and reflected from the colored areas.

Yet another object comprehends a process for making an article of manufacture as described in the foregoing paragraphs.

Other objects and important features of the invention will be apparent from a study of the following specification taken with the drawings which together describe and illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention, and what is now considered to be the best mode of practicing the principles thereof. Other embodiments may be suggested to those having the benefit of the teachings herein, and such other embodiments are intended to be reserved especially as they fall within the scope and spirit of the subjoined claims.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a master pictorial representation which it is desired to reproduce to embody the improvements according to the present invention, and discrete color areas thereof being shaded in accordance with standard symbols;

FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1, but showing in outlines the discrete color areas seen in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view of a lined screen adapted to beshaped to correspond to one of the discrete color areas seen in FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 4 shows an overlay made from the screen seen in FIG. 3, said overlay corresponding in outline to a discrete color area seen in FIG. 1, and as seen in outline in FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 4, but showing an overlay for another area of a same or different discrete color;

FIG. 6 shows the overlays of FIGS. 4 and 5 placed over their corresponding areas;

FIG. 7 is a reversed photo-engraving of FIG. 6, showing the manner in which the parallel lines of the overlying screens extend in different directions;

FIG. 8 is an exploded sectional view through a foil material particularly adapted to have the pictorial representation either printed or off-set thereon; and

FIG. 9, is a view similar to FIG. 1, but showing how the pictorial representation and the material of FIG. 8 is embossed by the photo-engraving seen in FIG. 7, so as to highlight the discrete color areas thereof.

Referring now to the drawings, FIG. 1 shows a pictorial representation illustrated generally by the reference numeral 10, said representation containing areas of substantially different discrete colors, each such color being represented in accordance with the standard symbols referred to in Rule 84 of the Rules of Practice of the United States Patent Office in Patent Cases.

The pictorial representation 10, seen in FIG. 1, may

be printed upon a foil sheet 11 seen in FIG. 8. The foil sheet 11 preferably comprises a foil layer 12, 211] intermedi- 3,157,559 Patented Nov. 17, 1964 ate layer 13 made of suitable deformable material such as wax or plastic or the like, and a backing strip 14. Pictorial representation 10 may be either directly printed upon the foil 12 or placed thereon by a suitable oil-set process. As a general proposition, the colored inks employed in making the color pictorial representation 10 are preferably of a translucent type so that the sheen of the foil is partly seen therethrough.

The pictorial representation 143 seen in FIG. 1 is made from a master which can be reduced to its outlined components, the master being referred to by the reference numeral 15; see FIG 2. Each of the discrete color areas of the pictorial representation seen in FIG. 1 is outlined as seen in FIG. 2. A one-way screen 16 having parallel lines or rulings of from 55 to rulings per inch is made of suitable transparent material, see FIG. 3. The screen 16 is shaped to provide an overlay 17 seen in FIG. 4, which corresponds in outline to an outlined area 18 seen in FIGS. 1 and 2. The overlay 17 is placed in position as seen in FIG. 6 on the outline master 15 seen also with respect to FIG. 2. The screen 16 is also suitably cut to provide an overlay 19 adapted to overlay an area 21 seen in FIG. 2, the overlay 19 being shown in position in FIG. 6.

It will be noted from FIG. 1, that area 21 has a different color from area 18 and from FIG. 6 that the direction of the lines of the screen 16 are difierent in the two overlays 17 and 19. Each of the areas seen in FIGS. 1 and 2 is overlain as seen in FIG. 6 with overlays of a corresponding outline like those seen in FIGS. 4 and 5 with the lines of each overlay being parallel to each other but extending in difierent directions from the lines of the overlays of contiguous discrete color areas.

The master outline seen in FIG. 6, when completely covered with the overlays made from the screen 16 in FIG. 3, is then exposed in a photo-engraving process to provide a photo-engraving plate 22 seen in FIG. 7. Obviously, the plate 22 seen in FIG. 7 is a reverse image of that seen in FIGS. 1 and 2. The photo-engraving 22 is made of a size corresponding to the pictorial representation 149 seen in FIG. 1 which is first printed or offset upon the foil 12. The photo-engraving 22 is then brought into register with the pictorial representation 111 seen in FIG. 1 to provide the resulting highlighted pictorial representation 23 seen in FIG. 9.

With the use of translucent inks, and by reason of the embossing efiect of the photo-engraving 22 seen in FIG. 7, there results therefrom a pictorial representation having unusual and striking highlighting eifects. It has been found that such pictorial representations are of particular value in the advertising of products or for use in calendars, because of the difierent reflective qualities of the diiferent areas of the pictorial representation and because of the diiference in the direction of the light reflected therefrom.

While the invention has been described in terms of a particular pictorial representation made according to the process, it is not intended that the invention be limited to the particular pictorial representation herein shown, and other representations and the process by which the same are made is intended to be reserved.

We claim:

1. A multi-color pictorial representation characterized by highlighting effects, said pictorial representation including a metallic foil covered sheet having colored areas formed thereon of inks having translucent properties so that the sheen of said metallic foil covered sheet appears therethrough, said metallic foil covered sheet being deformable and being deformed subsequent to the emplacement of said colored areas thereon by striations in said metallic foil covered sheet and in said colored areas, all of the striations in a given colored area extending along parallel axes, and all of the striations of contiguous colored areas extending in different directions from the striations of a contiguous colored area.

2..A rnulti-color pictorial representation characterized by highlighting effects, said pictorial representation including a metallic foil sheet having colored areas formed there on of inks having .translucentproperties sothat the sheen of said metallic foil sheet appears therethrough, said metallic foilsheetbeing deformable. and being deformed subsequent to the emplacement of saidv colored areas thereon by striations in said metallic: foil sheet and in said colored areas, all of the striations in a given coloredarea extending along parallel axes, and allof the striations of contiguous colored'areas extending in difierent directions from the striations of a contiguous col-' ored area.

3.. A multi-color pictorial representation-characterized by highlighting effects, saidpictorial representation including a metallic foil sheet having discrete colored areas formed thereon of inks having translucent properties so thatthe sheenof said metallic foil shee-tappears therethrough, said metallic foilsheet'being deformable and being deformed subsequent to the emplacement of-said colored areas thereon by striationsin said metahic foil sheet and in said discrete colored areas, all of the striations in a given discrete colored area extending along parallel, axes, and all of the striations of contigL-ouscolored areas.

areas and placing the same on corresponding areas but making the lines thereof extend in directions diflerent from the screens covering contiguous areas, making an engraving from the .master so superimposed with the aforesaid-lined screens, reproducing ,saidcolor areas on a metallic foil, and embossing said foilbysardengrav- 5. The process of making a multi-color pictorial representation characterized by highlightingetfects and having areas of difierent substantially discrete colors, which comprise making a master having. outlinedareas corresponding to the aforesaid discrete color areas, cutting a first lined screen along an outline corresponding to one of said. outlined areas and placing the same on a corresponding area of said master, cutting successive similar lined screens each along an outline corresponding to the other areas and placing the same on the said corresponding areas but making the lines-thereof extend in directions diderent from the screens covering contiguous areas, making an engraving from said master so superimposed with the aforesaid lined screens, reproducing said color areas on a sheet, and embossing said sheet by said engraving.

6. The process of making a-multi-color pictorial rep resentation character zed by highlighting elfects and having areas of diiterent substantially discrete colors, which comprises making a pictorial representation with-the aforesaid discrete color areas, cutting a first'lined screen along an outline corresponding to the outline of an area of substantially discrete color on said pictorial representation and placing the same on a corresponding area of said pictorial representation, successively cutting similar lined screens each along an outline corresponding to the other discrete color areas and placing the sameon the said' corresponding areas but making the lines thereof extend in directions different from the screens covering contiguous areas, making an engraving from the pictorial representation so superimposed with the aforesaid lined.-

screens, reproducingsaid color areas on a metallic foil, and embossing said foil by saidengraving.

7. The process of making'a multi-color pictorial reprcsentation characterized by highlightingefiects'and having areas of ditierent substantially discrete colors, which comprises rnakin a pictorial representation with the aforesaid discrete color areas, cutting a first lined screen along an outline corresponding toxthe outline'of. an areaofdiscrete color and placing the sameon-a corresponding area of said pictorial representation, successively cutting similar-lined screens along outlines corresponding to the'outlines of the-other discretecolor areas and placing the; same on the said corresponding areas but making the lines thereof extend in directions different from the screens covering contiguous areas, making an engraving from.

pictorial representations so superimposedwith the aforesaid line screens, reproducing saidcolorareas' on a sheet, and embossing said sheet by said engraving;

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1. A MULTI-COLORED PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION CHARACTERIZED BY HIGHLIGHTING EFFECTS, SAID PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION INCLUDING A METALIC FOIL COVERED SHEET HAVING COLORED AREAS FORMED THEREON OF INKS HAVING TRANSLUCENT PROPERTIES SO THAT THE SHEEN OF SAID METALLIC FOIL COVERED SHEET APPEARS THERETHROUGH, SAID METALLIC FOIL COVERED SHEET BEING DEFORMABLE AND BEING DEFORMED SUBSEQUENT TO THE EMPLACEMENT OF SAID COLORED AREAS THEREON BY STRIATIONS IN SAID METALLIC FOIL COVERED SHEET AND IN SAID COLORED AREAS, ALL OF THE STRIATIONS IN A GIVEN COLORED AREA EXTENDING ALONG PARALLEL AXES, AND ALL OF THE STRIATIONS OF CONTIGUOUS COLORED AREAS EXTENDING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS FROM THE STRIATIONS OF A CONTIGUOUS COLORED AREA.
 4. THE PROCESS OF MAKING A MULTI-COLOR PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION CHARACTERIZED BY HIGHLIGHTING EFFECTS AND HAVING AREAS OF DIFFERENT SUBSTANTIALLY DISCRETE COLORS, WHICH COMPRISES MAKING A MASTER HAVING OUTLINED AREAS CORRESPONDING TO THE AFORESAID DISCRETE COLOR AREAS, CUTTING A FIRST LINED SCREEN ALONG AN OUTLINE CORRESPONDING TO ONE OF SAID OUTLINED AREAS AND PLACING THE SAME ON A CORRESPONDING AREA OF SAID MASTER, CUTTING SIMILAR LINED SCREENS ALONG OUTLINES CORRESPONDING TO THE OTHER DISCRETE COLOR AREAS AND PLACING THE SAME ON CORRESPONDING AREAS BUT MAKING THE LINES THEEOF EXTEND IN DIRECTIONS DIFFERENT FROM THE SCREENS COVERING CONTIGUOUS AREAS, MAKING AN ENGRAVING FROM THE MASTER SO SUPERIMPOSED WITH THE AFORESAID LINED SCREENS, REPRODUCING SAID COLOR AREAS ON A METALLIC FOIL, AND EMBOSSING SAID FOIL BY SAID ENGRAVING. 